Safe recruits David Gorrod as a new Business Intelligence Developer

A local man, born and bred, David Gorrod was incredibly happy to be recruited by Safe, a fantastic job with a fantastic company, close to his home town of Leicester.

His new role at Safe will mean David developing Business Intelligence Solutions for existing Safe customers using the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform across Safe Tempest, Safe Tempest Internet, and Safe Financials software. These systems are designed to enable customers to better understand their own data and as an aid to making critical business decisions. Established users will be able to get even more from their data by working with the Safe Computing Business Intelligence team to add in bespoke functionality

Ever expanding business Safe Computing, was established in 1975, and now has five offices in the UK, with the head office situated in Leicester.

Bringing with him lots of relevant expertise for this emerging new role, before Safe, David worked for a full service digital marketing agency. There, he spent over four years working on both online and offline CRM and Business Intelligence solutions for leading blue chip company clients in the automotive, electronics, and financial markets.

Prior to this role, David spent over a decade as both a developer and database administrator for a leading name high street bank, where he worked on many projects including data warehousing and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions.

David says he knew Safe was the right company for him, as soon as he met with Jack Horlock, Director of Facilities, who has been instrumental in leading the business intelligence project. 'I could see Jack would be a great chap to work for, he clearly knows his stuff' David commented. In his second interview, David met Safe Computing MD, Sandy Scott, and was impressed that Sandy took the time to be part of the recruitment process. When made another alternative job offer at the same time, David knew Safe was the right choice.